netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] inet: frag: cleanup and update

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:00:49 +0200
From:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	nikolay@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, fw@...len.de,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, alex.aring@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] inet: frag: cleanup and update

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:50:28 +0200
> 
> > The end goal of this patchset is to remove the LRU list and to move the
> > frag eviction to a work queue. It also does a couple of necessary cleanups
> > and fixes. Brief patch descriptions:
> 
> Ok I decided to apply this series.
> 
> Honestly I thought the frag counter would be useful for diagnosing problems
> ("are there a lot of frag queues bunched up on my machine?").  But whatever.
> 
> You could make it accurate again by just scanning the hash table really
> quickly and counting how many entries you see, if you wanted to.

Right.  In case someone reports a bug vs. "bogus frag counter" either
myself or Nik will submit a patch to do this.

Thanks David.
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